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Cook. , GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, Bellevue City, Nebraska.' 1-tf W. II. Longsdorf, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Main, between Tw enty-Fifth an Twenty math streets, Belle vue City. 33tf W. W. Harvey, COUNTY SURVEYOR OF SARPY CO., will attend to all business of Surveying, laying out and dividing land, surveying and platting towns and roads. Office on Main street, Bellevue, N.T 20-tf B. P. Rankin, ATTORNEY AND COUN8NLLOR AT LAW, La Pi itte, N. T. Mf J. P. Peck, M. D. SURGEON k PHYSICIAN, Onsaha. Ne br ska Office and residence on Doles iitreet. . (lyu) Peter A. Sarpy, . FORWARDING t COMMISSION MER CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale Dealer in Indian Goods, Horses, Mules, and Cattle.I 1-tf D. J. Sullivan. M. D.. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Head of Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa. . nov. 13 1-tf. TWM: . SMITH. S. N. SMITH Smith & Brother, ATTORNEYS a. COUNSELLORS at LAW and Dealers U Real Estate, Bellevue, Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully and f romptly to buying and selling Real Estate, City Lots. Claims, and Land Warrants. Office at -the Benton House. 21-om THOS. MACON. . Ave. MACON. j. ., Maoon & Brother, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. LAND AGTS., Omaha City, Nebraska. Office on cor ner of Farnham and Fourteenth Streets. 42tf ii it D. n. Solomon. ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac tices In all the Courts of wi stent Iowa and Nebraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa. Land Agency not in the Programme, no 4-tf FASHIONABLE Hair Cutting, Shaving, Dying, and Bathing 6 loon, third door wei oi mm cxenaftge Bank", uinana, js. i. Omaha, Oct. 1, 1847. 47 Oustav Seeger,. TOPOGRAPHIC AND CIVIL ENGI NEER, Executes Drawing and Painting in every vie and description. Also, all business in ha line. Office oo Gregory atreet, Mary, Mills CoinV, In a i-tf BELLEVUE. NEBRASKA, BELLEVUE HOUSE. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE LARGE AND POPULAR HOTEL, OFFERS EVERY To the Public, and will render ASSIDIOI'S ATTENTION To Me wants of HIS GUESTS. . 3.1. ALLAN. Bellevue, Oct. 23, 185A. 1-tf j. ii imowir, ATTORNEY AXD (0CNCEL0R AT LAW GENERAL LAND AGENT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, PlaUsmotdh, Cass Co. Jf. T. ATTENDS to business in any of the Courts of'thls Territory. Particular attention paid to obtaining and locating Land Warrants, col lection of debts, ana taxes paid. Letters of inquiry relative to any parts of the Territory answered, if accompanied with a fee. REFERENCES t Hon. Lyman Trumbull) U. S. S. from Ills.) Hon. James Knox, M. C. Hon. O. H. Browning, . . Quincy, -Hon. Jam vt W. Grimest Governor of Iowa. Hon. H. P. Bennett, Del to C. from N. T Green, Weare fc Renton, Counell Bluffs, I. Nuckolls Jt Co., Glenwood, Iowa. 23tf. Ira A. "W. Buck, LAND and General Agent Pre-Emption Papers prepared. Land Warrants bought and sold. Office in the Old State House, over the U. S. Land Office. REFER TO Hon. A. R. Gillmore, Receiver, Omaha. Hon. Etios Lowe, " Hon. S. A. Strickland, Bellevue. Hon. John Finney, . " Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska Cihr. Omaha, June 20, 1857. 35 H. T. CLASKK. A. M. CLABKC. CLARKE & B R 0 FORWARDING avo COMMISSION MERCHANTS. STEMBOAT AND COLLECTING AGENTS, BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA. Dealers inP;ne Lumber, Boon, Sash, Floor, Meal, Bacon, &e., &c. Direct Goods care Clarke & Dro. l-tf BOYES & CO'S WESTERN LITHOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT, Florence, Nebraska, in Main St Town Plata, Maps, Sketches, Business Cards, Checks A Bills, Certificates, and every description of plain and faney en graving, executed promptly in eastern style. 3m32 Greene, Weare & Benton, BANKERS AND LAW AGENTS, Council Blulfs, Potowattaime comity, Iowa. Greene It Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Greene, Weaie Jt Rice, Fort Des Moines, la. Collections made ; Taxes paid ; and Lands purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-tf tO. SltTDEB. JOHN H. SHISMAX. Snyder Ac Sherman, A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT iA. LAW. and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun cil Bliitfs, Iowa, will practice their profession in all the Courts of Iowa and Nebraska. All collections entrusted to their care, at tended to promptly. Especial attention given to buying and sell ing real estate, and making pre-emptions in Nebraska. Deeds, Mortage, and other Instruments of writing drawn with dispatch) acknowledg ments taken, etc., fee. 2.1?" Office west side of Madison street, fust above Broadway. nor 13 1-tf. P. A. SARPY. FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Still continues the above business at ST. MARYS, IOWA, & BELIJEVTJX, W. T. . Merchants and Emigrants will find their goods promptly and carefully attended to. P. 8. I have the only WAREHOUSE for storage at the above aamed landings. St. Marys, Feb. 20tb, 1857. . . 21-tf-l Tootle Ac Jackson, T70RWARDINO COMMISSION MER. X' CHANTS, Council Dluffs city, Iowa. Hsvlng a Large and Commodious Warehonss on the Levee at the Council Bluffs landing, are now prepared to receive and store, all kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive . man pmj cunrgjes on su Kinds or rreigtns SO I that Steam Boats will not be detained as they i have been heretofore, in getting soma one to receive freight, when the consignees are absent. ' Itivriturr., l.tv.rmiiAr. A .1.- r Datik fc. Co. and Humphrey, Putt sl Tory, St. Louis, Mo. Tootle Is Fairleigh, St. Joseph, Mo. J. S. Chsneworih A Co., Cincinnati Ohio! W. F. ConJbonan, BurMngten, Iowa. 1-tf POETRY. Growing Old. t rLosiKca user. Now the frost, with fingers cold, Turns ths green leaves into gold, Eheut I am growing old I Soon will shins ths silvery thread. In my locks so thick and brown Premiss of ths hoary crown Which ths ya-s ars letting down Softly, on my waiting head. Then, whene'er I watch the play Of the children by ths way, They will come to me and say With swset voices coaxing low While with trembling hand, I twirl Back to rings some wind-tossed url " You were onee a little girl- Tell us of ths long ago I" On'er ay, always if it bs To bs merry, glad and free, With a heart alternately Wrung by pain, by Joy Wgulled If it be to turn away From the great world, proud and gay, With some broken toy to play, I shall always bs a child I If it be to raise mine eye With a hopeful prophecy To the rainbow in the sky When the waves are beating wild Or when that withdraws its beams And ths world all drsary seems, To live on in pleasant dreams I shall always be a child. If it bs to lovs the light, And to follow, with a might, Where my heart leads, wrong or right, Though by all the world reviled If it be to laugh to scorn All ths prids of station born, And at night to wish for morn, I shall always be a child. Yet, oh Time, attend my prayer Though thy cold hand blight my hair, Touch me softly spare, oh spare Life's best beauty. love and truth Let the withering control Of thy years, as on they roll, Spare the freshness of my soul, Spare ths fervor of my youth 1 They are wrong who tell us ags Has in tears, Its heritage, That all through its pilgrimage Is ths Miserere sung; lie whoss heart, though oft it errs, Tuned by Nature's ministers, Beats in unison with heis m Keepeth It forever young I Cheeks have palei beneath my lips Dar syes dimmed in death's eclipse Loves gons down like shattered ships In ths ocean of ths past Yet I know all these and more Wait me on the Shining Shore And the Angel will restore All my heart's lost wealth at last. Therefore, Time although I stand Far beyond Youth's fairy land All alone the while thy hand Scatters snow my hair among Let its touch be soft and light- Let it ripen and not blight So shall I bid life good-night ' Era I loss its morning song I MISCELLANEOUS. For ths Bellevue Gaxette. The Emigrant. av Mas. i. x. kti. 44 To the west I to ths west I to the Und of ths Where the mighty Missouri rollsViown to the sea t 1 Where a man is a man, If he's wifclng to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the oil.M It was autumn in New England. Au tumn with its gathered grain, fruits, and nuti, ensuring plenty for the ensuing winter-autumn with its clear blue skies, its beautiful sunsets, and brilliant for ests, and Henry Marvin slowly wended bit way through the little vilL. age of Milan, just a the sun's last rays were lingering about the spirit of the lit tie Tillage church, and tinging the many tinted leave of the forest trees, that crowned the summit of a hill rising on the east of Milan. He felt that he had never more fully appreciated or admired the beauties of the surrounding country, and yet the ensuing spring he had decid ed to leave that borne forever. An hum. ble but pleasant little cotts ge home, in the Mil-urt'S of Mihn, and during the eight THURSDAY, MAY years he had called it his, he had rach year added to its beauty and attractions. Ro tes, vines, and flowing shrubs, surround ed it in summer, with beauty and fra grance; and the fruits and vegetables from the garden and orchard supplied them with many comforts and luxuries. Then there were the companions of his boyhood, the Church where he had with them registered his vows to God, the church yard where rested his mother and two of his own household treasures, and the intelligent, refined, and cultivated so ciety if New England. Could he leave all this fur a home in the uncertain west ? For two years he had planned, reflcctod and deliberated, but with the consent and full approval of his wife, he had decided to break away from all those loved asso ciation. Eight years of wedded life ! How much of joy and sorrow, hope and fear, can be compressed in the short space of eight years ! He had always been an industrious mechanic, and at the time of his marriage had been able to .purchase and furnish comfortably their cottage home, hoping by their united exertions, they might be able to purchase one of the fine farms in the vicinity of Milan, where they might find a pleasant home in their declining years ; a wish I have often found to be a cherished one with many of best mechanics ot our country. Tb years passed, finding each faithful in the discharge of their duties. They had enjoyed health, contentment and peace of mind, and found in their affection for each other, purer joys than all earth's treamrers could bestow; but they were still as far from the goal of their ambi tion, as in the morning of life ; as the the small sum that they had been each yeur able to reserve from their necessary expenses, had not been equal to the year ly advance of landed property in the east ; and when wearied with the monotony of his daily labor, he had often felt he would so love to think he might, at some future time, be out in his own green fields, araoog his own flocks and beards, tilling his own soil, breathing the fresh, pure air of heav en ; and as he lost all hope of being able to purchase lands at Milan, visions of the west, floated before his mind.. He read and atrove to acquaint himself with the ad vantages to be derived, from a removal to the different points, and at last to the as tonishment of his friends, he decided that Nehaska would be for h;m the chosen spot.- With tearful eyes his wife first heard his expressions of preference for that dis tant Territory, for not easily can woman sever the ties that bind her to the loved scenes of early years, but she liatened to his reasons and convince! they were such as should govern them, ahe soon learned to speak of it with calmness, except when standing by the graves cf her infant sons, who were interred in the church yard of Milan. At the ages of 2 and 4 yean res- pectively, they bad died. Every look nf love, and every lisping word gf confidence and endearment, was and would ever be, as fresh in her mind, as if but yesterday, they bad left her, and it been such a sweet privilege to often stand by their little graves, and live over the past. Neighbors and friends strove to dis hearten and discourage. They spoke of the ditant, dreary Territory of Nebras- ka, as a wild country, among wild Indians, and the rigors of a Nebraska winter alone, too terrible to think of encounter ing. He listened with a quiet smile, to these so common prejudices, but assured those, truly wishing information, that it was not with him the wild adventure they regarded it. He had strove to acquire a true knowledge of the country he had chosen for hia home, and its pleasant lo cation, its clear, pure air, iu rich, fertile soil, the low price of the land, and the mild winters, were the advantages it pos sessed, and that induced his removal there. " But our schools and our churches ; you certainly would not have your chil dren grown up eo far removed from these important aids to civilization ; at nfither 13, 1858. gold, houses, or lauds, could compensate I ir uit ignorance or imm iramy oi your children." "And yet how short a time since our own New England was a like wil derness, and the same energy that plant cd churches and fostered schools here, can and will encourage and trannplant them to tho cities and villages, that are springing up in the fertile valleys of the far west. And think not I shall be alone, with a few wild Iudiuns and hunters, who havrt long since abandoned the habits of civilized life, for those rich lands, ao pleasantly situated on the west bank of Missouri, affording such fine facilities for internal commerce, are attracting the at tention of many of the most enterprising men of the east. I may be a little in ad vance of the great tide of emigration which shall eventually lake there the moat energet'e young men from your commu nities, and I am willing to share the hard ships of the first pioneers, that I may aid, too, in advancing the cause of Chris tianity, morality, and education, to im portant in the first settlement of any country. The last winter spent in Milan, was necessarily a very busy one. There was so much business to arrange, so many last visits that must be made, and it was ao important to learn all they could of their new home. Edward and Ellen, their two children, were as deeply interested as children usually are, iu the movements of their parents, grieving at the thought of part ing with their play-mates, and many lit tle household pets ; yet pleased with the bustle, attendunt upon their departure, and the prospect of so long a journey. On the 20th of April, 1816, they left Mi lan for liter far distant home. There would be little interest in fol lowing our, travelers, during their two week' journey, as quiet and unassuming in their manners, and plain and simple in their dress and habits, there wa little about them to awaken general curiosity, or interest, and yet a close observer would not regard them as an uninteresting fam ly group, as Mr. Marvin's countenance exhibited that shrewdness and intelligence characteristic of our best citizens, while Mrs. Marvin's well developed form, and cheerful countenance, bespoke the ener gy of purpose, and refinement of charac ter, so important in American house keepers, and if the children were not beautiful, they rendered themselves pleas ing and interesting, by their sprightliness, obedience, and intelligence. The lime taken for the passage of a steamer, from St. Louis to N. their destined stopping place, varysfrom 6 to 10 days; and often they ai together on tome rude be ndi, n the deck of the steamer, as it slowly plowed itsj way through the muddy waters of the Missouri, noting th variety f the coast, the carving and irregular shore, the prairie field and wood through which they passed. Everything surrounding them, possessed for them an interest, the farm houses of the adjoining hill, the rude dwellings of the Indians, or the rough log houses of the woodman, half concealed among the buahes and trees, and the little settlements passed from time to time, while the lively ind busy scene. presented by the groups nf men, collected l th landings, at the various points on the river, furnshed for them an interest ing phase of western life. ( To os contUwd ) Six feet in hia boots exclaimed old Mrs. Beeswax. What will the imper ence of this world come to I wonder t Why they might jut as reasonably tell me that a man haa six heads in bis hat. Ii appears from the historical records of Col. Benton s family that Mrs. Fre mont s name is not Jessie. Her name before her marnag was Ann Benton Our Jo -ie however was a sort of pet L t 1 t . Dime bj wnicn sne was caned. A fellow out West gets off the following definition of a widow : One who knows wuat a what and is desirous of further in formation on th rame subjoet. NO. 25. Godn WAT TO OCT CoBlf. -A POOf man, living in the town of Chester, Mass. went to Doacon Hunt: " I hare come te buy a bushel of corn. Here is the money. It is about all I can gather." The Dea con told him he could not spare a bushel for love or money. He waa keeping double the usual quantity for teed corn tho next year, and had to stint hi own family. The man urged his suit, but in , vain. At last he said, " Deacon, If you do not let me have the corn, I shall curt you." " Curse me f ' replied the deacon, "how dare you do so?" "Because," said the man, "the Bible saya sa " " Nonsense," exclaimed Deacon Hunt J " is no such thing in the Bible." M Yea there is," repliod the poor man. " Well," said the deacon, " if you can find any such text, I'll give you a bushel of corn. . They went into the houe, when the mail went to the old family Bible, turned te Prov. xi, 20, and read : M He that with holdeth corn, the people shall curat him I but blessings shall be upon the head ot , him that selleth it." The deacon was fairly caught. " Com ' along," said he, " and I will bt at good as my word." He took him to the corn -house, measured out a full bushel of corn, . helped the man put it into bis bag, assist ' ed him in slinging it upon his shoulder, and just before his departure, being some 1 what of a wag, he said, with a twinkle of his eye, " I say, neighbor, after yes) have carried this corn heme, ge up to Deacon Clark a, and lurtt him tut tf other bushel." .in. Waoocar. Some time ago. on the, Sabbath day. we wended our way to one) of our churches, sad instead of a sermon heard an address upon some missionary ' or other benevolent subject. After Ota addros was concludeed, two brethrea wero sent round with baskets for contributions. Parson L who was ont of the basket beares taking tho side upon which wo oaf Immediately in our front and upon the next seat negligently reclined our friend Billl II , a gentleman of infinite, humor, and full of dry joker, Parson L ox' tended the basket and Bill slowly shook, h s head. " Come, William, give us something.1; said the Parson. Can't do it." replied BilL ' 11 " Why not ? Is not the cause a good 1 one!" . .... " Yes ; but I am not able to girt aoy tLing." " Pooh 1 Poooh t I know better, yon ' must give a better reason than that" " Well, I owe to much money I mast be just before I am generous, yott know.' " But, William, you owe God a larger, debt then you owe any one else." i " Thai's true, parson, but then ht mini pushing mt likt ths baianct of my trtdiiori. ( The parson's face got into rather a en; rious confusion as he passed on. Tbs Fa am as Car. id. One of our exchanges gives the following first-rato. advice under tho beading of "The Far mers Creed :" - Wo believe in small farms and thor ough cultivation. Tho soil loves to oat at well as its owner, and therefore to be nurtured. Wo believe in largo crops, which leave the land better than they found it making both the fann and farm er rich at once. We believe ia going to the bottom of all things, and therefore, in deep plowing, and enough of it all tho better, if with a subsoil plow. Wo bo lieve that the best fertility of any soil ia tho spirit of industry, enterprise and in telligence; without this, lime and gypsum, bone and green manure, marl or piaster will be of litut use. Ve believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a epiniaf piano, a clean cupboard, dairy and ton science. Wt firmly disbelieve in farra. trs that will not improve ; in farms thai grow poorer every year ; in starved cat He ; in farmers boys turning into clerlto and merchants; in farmes' daughters un willing to work, and in all farmer who ar ashamed of their vocation. Senator Johnson of Tennessee says in bis last speech that he haa not got many slaves ; ttat ht baa got a few ; and that ho made them by his own indoatry. Louuvxut Jovnuu. Much remains unsumr as the tern eat remarked to the stone when it abruptly cot short his serenade. . : On a very pretty girl saying- w Lotgn Hunt I am very tad yo tu be rrplwi :' Oh no ; you belong to tho other Jewish' sect; you art very fairlmfy ' " i - ...0 At Weston. Mo. tho M root of aQ evil", has completely gin oout" Tha Arg saya that wver since the Jew rnade tho Golden Chlf has money been ao hard to get bold c. The money aliavere go eioag to ihe bo.low, ! . . i II M m ,1 i '1 n .1! a.. i T t. k . i .1. r f, i! i